Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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  • Quicksilver Todoist plugin

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    Todoist is yet another online "task manager" / todo list that lends itself to the whole GTD craze. Now Jonathan Johnson has hacked together a Quicksilver plugin that integrates with Todoist so that you can easily add entries to your online Todoist Projects. Although it lacks a lot of the functionality of the Stikkit Quicksilver plugin we mentioned earlier (in particular it only allows you to add, not edit, entries), nonetheless it could be a handy thing for those who prefer the nicely streamlined Todoist interface.

    The Todoist Quicksilver plugin is a free download from NilObject.
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  • Chroma feature movie player

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    Chroma is a video player for OS X "optimized for playing feature movies." Though there are many free options that will play most anything that Chroma will (QuickTime with Perian, VLC, mPlayerOSX, etc.), nonetheless Chroma has some nice features that may make it worthwhile for watching features in particular. These include "IntelliAspect" which eliminates the black (letterboxing) bars when viewing in full screen, built-in AVI/Divx support, built-in DVD support, fine-grained scrubbing controls, and a "Picture-In-Picture" Overlay mode, "which presents the movie in a small square in a corner of your screen, on top of your regular desktop."

    Chroma is $22 and a demo is available from mirailabs. If Chroma is worth the price it's for rather subtle niceties like the IntelliAspect and the scrubbing controls. If you just want to play videos, one of the free options will likely be fine.
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  • Platypus: create Mac applications from Ruby, Perl, shell scripts, etc.

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    MacResearch has posted a nice two part tutorial on using Platypus, a neat utility that allows you to "create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts." This include shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. With Platypus you can turn command-line only tools into full fledged, free-standing Mac applications that support drag and drop and even basic graphical feedback. Obviously this isn't going to make for a full GUI application, but it will allow you easily to create self-contained OS X applications that you can double-click to run. Especially for those in the science fields, and even for beginning (Ruby) script programmers like myself, Platypus makes it possible to get basic (and even not so basic) Mac app up and running very quickly.

    Platypus is a free download from Sveinbjorn Thordarson, and donations are requested.

    [Via MacResearch]

    Update: fixed headline
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  • Mac 101: Input Menu and keyboard layouts

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    OS X has a lot of nice features for "International" users that many folks forget are there, even though some of them are handy for US English users as well. Among these are the many available keyboard layouts in the Input Menu tab of the International System Preference Pane. The Input Menu is designed primarily to give you access to foreign language keyboard layouts which remap your Roman character keys to specialized glyph sets in both Roman and non-Roman languages (e.g. Cyrillic and Asian languages, etc.). In addition to the non-English language support, however, there are other useful things such as support for the Dvorak keyboard layout. Perhaps best of all, by checking the "Show input menu in menu bar" option (see the image after the jump) you get one click access to whichever language layouts you select in the Preference Pane, as well as the Character Palette (for finding obscure symbols and glyphs) and the Keyboard Viewer (which will place a clickable keyboard on your screen). This will place a small flag in your menu bar which will indicate which key layout is active, and when you click on it you'll be able to select from among the available key layouts selected in the Input Menu tab. If you ever have to write in a foreign language using an appropriate key layout can save a lot of time for tying special characters like macra in Latin and breathings and accents in Greek. And if you want to get a little bit adventurous you can even make custom key layouts of your own.

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